gimcrack
Example Sentences
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Imagine the damage such a salesman might do, stirring up dissatisfaction and unhappiness just to sell us a gimcrack agenda that we’d wish we had never bought.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
To call this tourist fare is merely to say that its appeal is generic and, yes, a bit gimcrack.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2018
Beneath the gimcrack pretext, one simple reason: The court didn’t like the law.
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2015
There Will Be Blood was about entrepreneurial capitalism; was about entrepreneurial religion, gimcrack philosophy, prospecting for snake oil.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012
She's out there in the flowing arbor, sewing some gimcrack thing and pretending she hasn't been worrying because I was out on the course.
From From the Car Behind by Flagg, James Montgomery
